LEC Player of the Week Honors for PSC Women's Baskeball player

Feb 01, 1999

PLYMOUTH, NH -

It was quite a week for the Plymouth State College women's
basketball senior captain as well as the entire Panther women's
hoop squad.

Senior Rebecca Morse (Sterling, MA) capped off
the best week of her career with the selections of Little East
Conference Player of the Week and Eastern College Athletic
Conference Weekly Honor Roll. She was outstanding for PSC, leading
the Panthers to a 2-0 week with a pair of key LEC victories.

A 5'11" center, Morse averaged 23.0 points, 15.5 rebounds and
2.5 steals and shot 64.3 percent from the field as the Panthers
knocked off arch-rival Keene State and Rhode Island College. Morse
led all scorers with 28 points and 12 rebounds in the win over KSC,
hitting 11 of 15 shots and scoring nine of PSC's 11 overtime points
to secure the outcome. She came back with a career-high 19 rebounds
and 18 points in the RIC win, connecting on her 1,000th career
point midway through the second half.

For the season, Morse is averaging 13.5 points, 9.4 rebounds and
2.8 steals in 17 games. She shoots 48.5 percent from the field, and
has been the team's leading rebounder 13 times and the scoring
leader three times. She ranks sixth in the LEC in scoring, fourth
in rebounding, fifth in steals and third in field goal percentage.

The Panthers' win over Keene State was their first in three
tries since the Owls joined the LEC, and the triumph over RIC
stopped PSC's five-game losing streak to the Anchorwomen. Plymouth
State, 9-8 overall and 4-5 in the LEC, play three road games this
week -- non-conference affairs Tuesday (Feb. 2) at Endicott (7:00
p.m.) and Thursday (Feb. 4) at Bridgewater State (5:30 p.m.),
followed by a Little East game Saturday (Feb. 6) at UMass Dartmouth
(1:00 p.m.).

Tuesday's game at Endicott will be an interesting one for PSC
first-year coach Lauren Lavigne. Prior to coming
back to her alma mater last summer, Lavigne coached the Power Gulls
the past two seasons, including many of the players on the current
Endicott roster.

PANTHER NOTES: Morse became the fifth Panther
woman to reach the 1,000 point milestone, joining Betsy
Bruce (1,264 from 1991-95), Lisa
Richardson (1,194 from 1981-85), Deb
Hughes (1,025 from 1977-80) and Sarah
Dodd (1,010 from 1992-96).......Junior Lauren
Santoli (Mansfield, MA) scored a season-high 16 points vs.
Keene State, and is averaging 13.0 points in her last three games.
Her 16 points are the most in a game for Santoli since she scored
25 against Emmanuel on Dec. 10, 1996.....The Panthers have four
players with scoring averages in double figures - Morse at 13.5,
Courtney Jacques (Belmont, NH) at 10.9, and
Kate Fillion (Littleton, NH) and Krystyna
Zagorski (Matawan, NJ) at 10.1.